The memory pointed to by the ::rtc member is managed via devres, and no code in this driver uses it past _probe(). We can drop it from the structure and just use a local temporary variable, reducing runtime memory consumption by a few bytes. Signed-off-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-m48t86.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-m48t86.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-m48t86.c index dd4a62e2d39c73b1c8c3f50a59fd4fffc0b45105..10cd054fe86f9e6be74eb282222b2751dd91cc7e 100644 --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-m48t86.c +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-m48t86.c @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ struct m48t86_rtc_info { void __iomem *index_reg; void __iomem *data_reg; - struct rtc_device *rtc; }; static unsigned char m48t86_readb(struct device *dev, unsigned long addr) @@ -219,6 +218,7 @@ static bool m48t86_verify_chip(struct platform_device *pdev) static int m48t86_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct m48t86_rtc_info *info; + struct rtc_device *rtc; unsigned char reg; int err; struct nvmem_config m48t86_nvmem_cfg = { @@ -250,17 +250,17 @@ static int m48t86_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -ENODEV; } - info->rtc = devm_rtc_allocate_device(&pdev->dev); - if (IS_ERR(info->rtc)) - return PTR_ERR(info->rtc); + rtc = devm_rtc_allocate_device(&pdev->dev); + if (IS_ERR(rtc)) + return PTR_ERR(rtc); - info->rtc->ops = &m48t86_rtc_ops; + rtc->ops = &m48t86_rtc_ops; - err = devm_rtc_register_device(info->rtc); + err = devm_rtc_register_device(rtc); if (err) return err; - devm_rtc_nvmem_register(info->rtc, &m48t86_nvmem_cfg); + devm_rtc_nvmem_register(rtc, &m48t86_nvmem_cfg); /* read battery status */ reg = m48t86_readb(&pdev->dev, M48T86_D); -- 2.48.1.711.g2feabab25a-goog